Trauma & secondary traumatic stress
Experiences of helping professionals, exposure to distressing work, and pathways toward recovery and growth.
MindShift Research Group · A PEOLLC division
Ask better questions.
Create meaningful change.
Research that connects lived experience, rigorous inquiry, and practical decisions for people and organizations.
Purposeful inquiry. Practical value.
Build evidence that helps
people and systems move forward.
MindShift Research Group is the research and evaluation division of Protect Each One Consulting, LLC. We welcome conversations with universities, independent researchers, community organizations, healthcare teams, and public-sector partners seeking to develop research or commission a defined project.
Our goal is to build collaborative research partnerships with clear roles, thoughtful methods, and findings that can inform practice.
Our research agenda
People at the center.
Context in every question.
These priorities guide our research interests and partnership discussions.
Workforce well-being & burnout
Working conditions, professional support, retention, and sustainable practice.
Trauma-informed systems & leadership
Organizational culture, psychological safety, supervision, and implementation.
Community needs & access to care
Service experiences, barriers to support, and community-informed program priorities.
Research & evaluation services
From a focused question
to a useful body of evidence.
Each engagement is scoped to the question, available data, timeline, and expertise required.
Research design & protocol development
Turn an important question into a feasible research plan.
Potential deliverablesResearch questions, design rationale, protocol outline, instruments, and an analysis plan.
Qualitative research
Understand experiences, contexts, and the meaning behind the findings.
Potential deliverablesInterview and focus-group guides, thematic analysis plans, and interpretive reports.
Program evaluation
Examine how a program works and what can be improved.
Potential deliverablesLogic models, process and outcome questions, evaluation frameworks, and recommendations.
Needs assessment
Identify priorities with the people and communities affected.
Potential deliverablesStakeholder engagement plans, service-gap analyses, and needs-assessment reports.
Collaborative analysis
Bring the right methodological expertise to a project.
Potential deliverablesScoped qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-method analysis with qualified collaborators.
Research translation & dissemination
Make findings useful to decision-makers and communities.
Potential deliverablesResearch briefs, reports, presentations, and manuscript-development support.
Researcher partnerships
Bring your expertise.
Build something together.
We welcome interest from qualitative researchers, statisticians, mixed-method researchers, evaluators, subject-matter experts, and community-engaged research partners.
Introduce your research interests ↗Clear expectations from the start
A thoughtful foundation
for every partnership.
Before an engagement begins, the parties agree on the work to be performed and the responsibilities that come with it.
- Scope & delivery: questions, methods, milestones, acceptance criteria, and reporting.
- People & accountability: qualifications, investigator roles, conflicts of interest, and oversight responsibilities.
- Data & confidentiality: authorized access, data-use terms, storage, retention, and permitted uses.
- Ownership & dissemination: intellectual property, publication plans, authorship criteria, and acknowledgment.
- Commercial terms: project fees, payment milestones, change requests, and closeout.
How we work
A clear path from inquiry to insight.
- 01
Discovery
Clarify the problem, intended users, available information, and decisions the research should support.
- 02
Design & agreement
Develop the scope, study approach, staffing plan, budget, deliverables, and contracting arrangements.
- 03
Review & preparation
Establish the required ethics determinations, institutional permissions, training, data agreements, and study procedures.
- 04
Conduct & analysis
Carry out the agreed work after required reviews and permissions, with documented methods and quality checks.
- 05
Interpretation & dissemination
Review findings in context, communicate limitations, and deliver reports or other agreed outputs.
Research ethics & federal readiness
Build the research.
Establish the right oversight.
MindShift aims to develop research collaborations and pursue appropriate funding opportunities. Institutional registrations, partner agreements, and study-specific review requirements are confirmed during project planning.
Study-specific IRB review
An Institutional Review Board reviews human-subject research protocols when required. Review arrangements can involve a qualified external or collaborating institution’s IRB, with responsibilities documented as applicable.
Research classification and required determinations are resolved through the appropriate institutional process before applicable participant activities begin.
Human research protection resources ↗Institutional assurance
An institution engaged in nonexempt human-subject research supported or conducted by HHS generally needs an OHRP-approved Federalwide Assurance (FWA). This institutional commitment is distinct from a study’s IRB approval.
OHRP assurance & registration guidance ↗NIH funding readiness
NIH funding is a separate application process. Organizational preparation includes SAM.gov/UEI, Grants.gov, and eRA Commons registrations. Eligibility depends on the specific funding opportunity, including whether for-profit applicants are eligible.
NIH organization registration guide ↗What does it mean to establish an IRB?
Operating an IRB is a separate institutional undertaking from conducting studies or obtaining an FWA. IRB registration is handled through OHRP and does not itself constitute approval of a study or certification of an IRB’s competence. A research organization can explore an external reviewing IRB rather than establishing its own board.
Read OHRP’s IRB registration explanation ↗
Research leadership
Dr. Veronica Y. Griffin
Ph.D., MSW, LCSW, LICSW, LCSW-C, CCTP
Clinical Social Work Researcher and Founder & CEO of Protect Each One Consulting, LLC.
Her research interests include work-related secondary trauma, the experiences of clinical social workers, trauma-informed systems, and professional well-being.
Meet our founder ↗Let’s build the next question
Start a project.
Explore a partnership.
Tell us what you want to investigate or how your expertise could contribute. We’ll use an initial conversation to discuss scope, fit, and next steps.
Prefer to email directly?
info@protecteachone.com
Share a brief, nonconfidential overview. Participant information, clinical records, and research datasets should be exchanged only through an agreed project process.
Evidence into everyday practice